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Update: Watch Dogs’ Graphics Technical Director Sebastian Viard has revealed through a tweet that these aren’t the official hardware requirements. According to Viard, the actual requirements will be much lower than the ones shown here, and will be revealed soon.
Original story: It’s well known that Ubisoft’s upcoming sci-fi open world game, Watch Dogs, will be needing a beefy system if gamers want to play it with every slider turned up to the max. However, it was so far unknown what sort of beast would be needed to run this game… until now. The company had accidentally revealed the system requirements for the UPlay page for Watch Dogs, but has since taken it down. However, the details were saved by NeoGAF users .
One of the most notable things about the game is that it will need a 64-bit OS to run. Those running on 32-bit versions of Windows are out of luck. The operating systems supported by the game are Windows Vista (SP2), Windows 7 (SP1) and Windows 8. Other than this, users will need 20GB of HDD space and DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound cards with the latest drivers.
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Going into more detail, the minimum requirements for Watch Dogs are a DirectX 11 GPU with 1GB of memory along with a quad-core CPU. It will also need 4GB of RAM. For example, an Nvidia GTX 460 coupled with an Intel Core2 Quad Q6600, or an AMD Radeon HD 5770 coupled with an AMD Phenom X4 9750.
The recommended hardware is a DirectX 11 GPU with 2GB of memory and an eight-core CPU along with 8GB of RAM. For example, an Nvidia GTX 560 ti coupled with an Intel Core i7-3770 or an AMD Radeon HD 7850 coupled with an AMD FX-8350 eight-core CPU.
To turn the dials up to max, you’ll need the latest DirectX 11 GPU with 2GB or more of memory, the latest eight-core or higher CPU and at least 8GB of RAM. For example, an Nvidia GTX 670 coupled with an Intel Core i7-3930K or an AMD Radeon HD 7970 coupled with an AMD FX-9370 eight-core CPU.
As is common with all of Ubisoft’s recent games, Nvidia will be packing in some extra graphics-related features into the PC version of Watch Dogs. The game will be hitting stores in November on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. If you can’t wait for the game, check out our interview of some of the developers .
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